Re: Conditional searching & displaying

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 14812
interpreted = N
texte = >Problem 1: >I'm creating a search form (using pulldowns ) that looks for doctors by >specialty and city. However if the [numfound] is less than 2 then I'd like >to: >A. Display whatever records did match the criteria ...Put the founditems context for this part in a showif that's true when numfound<2.>B. Use a [Showif] statement to display some error messageShowif based on what? The number of records found?>C. Do a second search based upon the same [showif] criteria that only uses >the previous arguement for the Specialty field (ignoring the City >arguement) and displays those results in the same results.tmpl below the >error message.I'm not following you ...>Problem 2: >In the results page I'd like display the city field only once for each set >of doctors in that city that met the above search criteria, for example: > >La Jolla >Doc 1 >Doc 2 > >San Diego >Doc 3 >Doc 5 > >Pacific Beach >Doc 4 > >How do I write a [showif] (hideif ?) statement that only displays that >field once for a given set of records.You could use the summary parameter in a separate search with all the other parameters being the same.Sincerely, Ken Grome WebDNA Solutions http://www.smithmicro.com/webdnasolutions/. Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Conditional searching & displaying (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  2. Re: Conditional searching & displaying (Marty Schmid 1997)
  3. Re: Conditional searching & displaying (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  4. Conditional searching & displaying (Marty Schmid 1997)
  5. Conditional searching & displaying (Marty Schmid 1997)
>Problem 1: >I'm creating a search form (using pulldowns ) that looks for doctors by >specialty and city. However if the [numfound] is less than 2 then I'd like >to: >A. Display whatever records did match the criteria ...Put the founditems context for this part in a showif that's true when numfound<2.>B. Use a [showif] statement to display some error messageShowif based on what? The number of records found?>C. Do a second search based upon the same [showif] criteria that only uses >the previous arguement for the Specialty field (ignoring the City >arguement) and displays those results in the same results.tmpl below the >error message.I'm not following you ...>Problem 2: >In the results page I'd like display the city field only once for each set >of doctors in that city that met the above search criteria, for example: > >La Jolla >Doc 1 >Doc 2 > >San Diego >Doc 3 >Doc 5 > >Pacific Beach >Doc 4 > >How do I write a [showif] (hideif ?) statement that only displays that >field once for a given set of records.You could use the summary parameter in a separate search with all the other parameters being the same.Sincerely, Ken Grome WebDNA Solutions http://www.smithmicro.com/webdnasolutions/. Kenneth Grome

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